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A virus associated with the zoonotic pathogen <i>Plasmodium knowlesi</i> causing human malaria is a member of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon
2024-09-19
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Apicomplexa are single-celled eukaryotes that can infect humans and include the mosquito-borne parasite Plasmodium , the cause of malaria. Increasing rates of drug resistance in human-only Plasmodium species are reducing the efficacy of control efforts and antimalarial treatments. There are also rising cases of P. knowlesi , the only zoonotic Plasmodium species that causes severe disease and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 48ad31a9-f491-52b4-ab54-830ff9f34173
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.09.18.613759
